Lucius Knowles House

The Lucius Knowles House is a historic house located at 838 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is locally significant as one of the city's best preserved Second Empire style buildings.

Lucius Knowles House
Location838 Main Street,
Worcester, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°15′18″N 71°48′53″W
Built1870
Architectural styleItalianate
MPSWorcester MRA
NRHP reference No.80000628 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 05, 1980

Description and history

The three-story, wood-framed house was built around 1870 for industrialist Lucius Knowles, best known for his innovations in the manufacture of looms. It has a symmetrical front facade with mansard roof, and a front entry sheltered by an elaborately decorated porch. Another entry on the south side also had a decorated porch, now glassed in, above which there is an oriel window. A unique music room was added to the northeast corner of the house around 1880, to a design by Stephen Earle, which featured stained glass skylights (now covered over but still in place).[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980.[1]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Lucius Knowles House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-13.


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